Tuesday, April 20, 2010

[RED DEMOCRATICA] Coments. Canada : No One Is Illegal Montreal Déclaration à propos du projet de loi 94 (concernant le niqab) | Statement in response to Bill 94 (regarding the niqab)

 

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Personne n'est ill�gal-Montr�al endosse la d�claration suivante, contre le projet de loi 94, sign� par les membres du personnel enseignant ainsi que les �tudiantes et �tudiants
de l�Institut Simone de Beauvoir. Voici une d�claration ant�rieure (novembre 2007) par Personne n'est ill�gal concernant le d�bat sur les "accommodements raisonnables" au Qu�bec: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/11/accommodements-raisonnables.html

No One Is Illegal-Montreal endorses the following statement initiated by the Simone de Beauvoir Institute in opposition to Bill 94 in Qu�bec. The following is a link to a previous statement (November 2007) by No One Is Illegal-Montreal concerning the debate on "reasonable accommodation" in Quebec: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/11/reasonable-accomodation.html
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11/12/07

La Commission et le d�bat sur les "Accommodements Raisonnables": D�claration de Personne N�est Ill�gal-Montr�al

[Le Collectif Personne N�est ill�gal � Montr�al � r�dig� la d�claration qui suit en opposition au �d�bat� raciste sur les accommodements raisonnables au Qu�bec et � la �Commission Bouchard-Taylor�. Nous encourageons les groupes et individus qui sont d�accord avec cette d�claration � l�endosser en contactant : noii-montreal@resist.ca. Nous encourageons �galement les alli�Es qui voudraient s�impliquer dans la mobilisation contre les audiences publiques, ou qui soutiennent l�effort entrepris par Personne N�est illgal de rentrer en contact avec nous. ]

12 Novembre 2007

Le d�bat actuel sur les � accommodements raisonnables � au Qu�bec, de m�me que la �Commission de consultation sur les pratiques d'accommodement reli�es aux diff�rences culturelles � - mieux connue sous le nom de � Commission Bouchard-Taylor �, sont fondamentalement bas�s sur des pr�ceptes x�nophobes, racistes et sexistes.

De prime abord, ce �d�bat� ne reconna�t pas le fait que le Qu�bec et le Canada sont des entit�s �tablies sur des terres vol�es aux Autochtones, et ce que ces entit�s se sont d�velopp�es � travers la d�possession et le g�nocide de ces peuples, qui ont �t� forc�s de � s'accomoder � au processus de colonisation. De plus, ce � d�bat � ignore compl�tement le fait que le racisme et l'id�ologie de supr�matie blanche font partie int�grante dela cr�ation du Canada et du Qu�bec. Ces id�ologies ont d�fini tout au long de l'histoire et jusqu'� aujourd'hui ceux qui sont � inclus � dans le concept de l'identit� nationale et ceux qui ne le sont pas.

La Commission Bouchard-Taylor a �t� mise en place dans un intense climat de x�nophobie, avec en toile de fond une campagne �lectorale en qu�te de boucs �missaires. La Commission a servi de plateforme incontest�e pour l'expression du racisme, de l'islamophobie et de l'anti-s�mitisme.

Des politiciens � l'opportunisme aigu ainsi que les m�dias de masse ont jou� sur les peurs et les pr�jug�s et ont manipul� de fausses controverses au sujet des pratiques religieuses et des diff�rences culturelles, dans le but de de cr�er un climat d'hyst�rie g�n�ralis�e, qui au fond est bas� sur peu ou pas de substance.

� l'int�rieur m�me de sa structure, ce � d�bat � a cr�� une dichotomie fondamentale entre le � nous � et le � eux �, le � nous � �tant d�fini comme la population blanche de descendance europ�enne, et le � eux � s'appliquant � diff�rents groupes d'immigrants racialis�s. Ce suppos� d�bat a permis l'expression publique et admise d'un sectarisme b�at, dirig� contre les communaut�s immigrantes et religieuses, tout en faisant usage de caricatures simplistes pour les r�duire � des blocs homog�nes, monolithiques et fig�s.

Nous rejetons ce portrait � la fois simpliste et insultant de nos communaut�s, tout en r�affirmant la diversit� de nos cultures et de nos traditions, ainsi que de nos multiples identit�s � l'int�rieur de celles-ci.

D'une mani�re tr�s insidieuse, ceux qui s'identifient comme progressistes et comme f�ministes ont utilis� la Commission afin de promouvoir leur propre forme - plus sophistiqu�e - de racisme. Un racisme qui ignore les diff�rentes formes d'oppression � l'int�rieur des soci�t�s occidentales et qui consid�re immanquablement le Qu�bec comme �tant de facto une soci�t� � pluraliste, d�mocratique et �galitaire �

Alors qu'une rh�torique islamophobe et sexiste est utilis�e pour justifier la guerre � l'�chelle mondiale, comme dans le cas de l'occupation militaire de l'Afghanistan, le Qu�bec a emprunt� une rh�torique semblable, centr�e autour de ce qui est sch�matiquement d�sign� comme � les droits des femmes �. Cette rh�torique d�shumanise syst�matiquement les cultures musulmanes, afin de justifier l'intol�rance au sein de ce � chez nous�.

Nous rejetons l'id�e que les femmes de foi aient besoin d'�tre sauv�es de leurs cultures fondamentalement oppressives et r�trogrades. Nous les soutenons plut�t dans leurs luttes de lib�ration, dont elles sont les sujets � part enti�re, et non pas les objets ou les victimes.

Alors que la Commission Bouchard-Taylor entame ses audiences publiques � Montr�al, nous nous mobilisons afin de rejeter ouvertement et publiquement le processus et le cadre id�ologique de la Commission. S'impliquer dans la Commission serait synonyme d'une validation de ses pr�misses racistes et une approbation de sa fonction de juge des communaut�s immigrantes.

Cette Commission, cr��e et parrain�e par l'�tat, n'est rien d'autre qu'un processus de soumission, � travers lequel des groupes minoritaires sont forc�s � justifier jusqu'� leur existence m�me au Qu�bec, � coups d'humiliantes ench�res � � l'int�gration �. La mani�re dont ce d�bat est articul� met de c�t� toutes les intol�rances et les injustices subies par de nombreuses communaut�s migrantes au Qu�bec, tout en les obligeant � faire la preuve qu'ils sont de � bons Qu�b�cois �.

Nous d�clarons : Ni patrie, ni �tat; ni Quebec, ni Canada! Nous refusons de nous soumettre � tout forme de nationalisme.

Nous choisissons plut�t de militer en mettant de l'avant une vision de justice sociale sans compromis, bas�e sur des luttes populaires qui s'effectuent au quotidien. Nous reconnaissons et soutenons les luttes pour la souverainet� et l'autod�termination des peuples autochtones � travers les Am�riques, luttes une fois encore rendues invisibles par
le soi-disant � d�bat � sur les accommodements raisonnables.

Nous militons activement contre la pauvret�, la pr�carit�, le profilage racial, la brutalit� polici�re, la guerre, le capitalisme et le sexisme. Nous militons contre les fronti�res, pour la libert� de mouvement et pour un statut pour toutes et tous. Nous luttons activement contre l'oppression et la violence inflig�es par l'�tat aux plus marginalis�Es, tout en continuant � lutter contre toute forme d'oppression, quelle que soit sa source.

� la vision r�ductrice et malsaine v�hicul�e par le d�bat sur les �Accommodements raisonnables �, nous opposons � et pr�f�rons � celle de la �solidarit� sans fronti�res �, dans un esprit d'entraide mutuelle.

Nous appelons � un rejet collectif de la Commission dans son ensemble. Le processus de dialogue v�ritable, le r�el pluralisme et le vrai d�bat d�coulent de nos luttes contre toutes les formes d'oppression. Le �d�bat sur les accommodements raisonnables � a obscurci l'unit� et la solidarit� que nous partageons � en tant que travailleurs(euses), pauvres, femmes, personnes queer et trans, migrantEs, et autres � en luttant ensemble pour obtenir une justice v�ritable.

Nous r�it�rons par la pr�sente l'importance de ces luttes tout en refusant les pr�misses fondamentalement racistes et sexistes qui sous-tendent la Commission Bouchard-Taylor. Nous refusons la soumission et la crainte, et continuerons � pratiquer l'autod�termination, dans une perspective de lib�ration collective.

-- Personne N�est Ill�gal-Montr�al (Novembre 2007)
noii-montreal@resist.ca - ����������514-848-7583������� 514-848-7583
http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com

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D�claration de l�Institut Simone de Beauvoir
� propos du projet de loi 94

Le 25 mars dernier, le gouvernement de Jean Charest a pr�sent� le projet de loi 94, lequel emp�cherait les femmes
portant le niqab d�avoir acc�s aux services publics offerts par de multiples institutions et �tablissements tels que les
h�pitaux, les centres de la petite enfance, les �coles et les universit�s, et qui leur interdirait de travailler dans la
fonction publique. Lors d�une conf�rence de presse, le premier ministre Charest a d�crit ce projet de loi comme un
exemple de d�fense des principes d��galit� entre les sexes et de la�cit� au sein des institutions publiques.
Nous nous opposons � cette loi et nous croyons fermement qu�elle aura pour effet de limiter plut�t que de favoriser
les droits des femmes. Comme nous l�avons exprim� en novembre 2007 dans notre r�ponse publique � la
Commission de consultation sur les pratiques d�accommodement reli�es aux diff�rences culturelles, nous sommes
d�avis que le gouvernement devrait intervenir davantage pour assurer l��galit� entre les sexes, mais nous sugg�rons
que cela devrait se faire non pas en se centrant sur les valeurs la�ques et la religion, mais en agissant sur les
questions de violence, de pauvret�, de sant� et d�acc�s � l��ducation et au travail pour les femmes. En fait,
l�utilisation par le premier ministre Charest des termes � la�que � et � �galit� entre les sexes � est source de
confusion. Il est �vident que la pr�occupation du gouvernement n�est pas d�encadrer l�ensemble des pratiques
religieuses, mais bien les pratiques musulmanes. La r�gulation de l�expression religieuse des femmes en public et
l�interdiction d�acc�s aux services gouvernementaux et � la vie publique ne peuvent �tre vus comme un pas vers
l��galit� entre les sexes. Le projet de loi 94 est chauviniste et pr�sente l�image trompeuse d�un Qu�bec ayant atteint
l��galit� entre les sexes tout en sous-entendant que les communaut�s musulmanes sont intrins�quement oppressives
pour les femmes.

En tant que f�ministes, nous sommes engag�es � promouvoir et soutenir l�autonomie des femmes ainsi que leur
capacit� de comprendre et d�articuler leurs exp�riences d�oppression dans des termes qui leur sont propres. Et c�est
en tant que f�ministes que nous disons NON aux interventions de l��tat qui promettent l��galit� entre les sexes aux
d�pens de l�autonomie des femmes.

Sign�: Les membres du personnel enseignant ainsi que les �tudiantes et �tudiants
de l�Institut Simone de Beauvoir
avec le soutien de l��cole des affaires publiques et communautaires
Universit� Concordia, le 7 avril 2010

Pour plus d�information, veuillez consulter la position prise en novembre 2007 par l�Institut Simone de Beauvoir en
regard de la Commission Bouchard-Taylor: http://wsdb.concordia.ca/

Pri�re de faire circuler.

Pour appuyer la d�claration, merci d�envoyer un courriel �: gada.mahrouse@concordia.ca
Relations publiques: Viviane Namaste, Ph.D., Institut Simone de Beauvoir
514-848-2424 poste 2371 ou viviane@alcor.concordia.ca


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Simone de Beauvoir Institute�s Statement
in Response to Bill 94

On March 25, the government of Jean Charest announced Bill 94, an act that would prevent women
wearing the niqab from accessing hospitals, daycares, schools, universities, and other public services, and
would bar women in niqab from working in the public sector. In a press conference, premier Charest
described the legislation as defending two principles: gender equality and secular public institutions.
We oppose this legislation and strongly believe that it will restrict rather than enhance the rights of
women. As we stated in November 2007 in our public response to the Commission de consultation sur les
pratiques d�accommodement reli�es aux diff�rences culturelles, while we agree that the government
should be doing more to ensure gender equality, we argue that this is not achieved by creating a false
opposition between secular values and religion, but rather by attending to gender-based violence, poverty,
women�s health, and women�s access to education and work. In fact, Charest�s use of the terms �secular�
and �gender equality� is misleading. It is obvious that the government�s concern is not with all religious
practices, but very particularly with Muslim practices. Furthermore, regulating women�s public religious
expression and denying them access to government services and public life is not a step in the direction of
gender equality. Bill 94 chauvinistically casts Qu�bec as having achieved gender equality while implying
a view of Muslim communities as inherently oppressive to women.

As feminists, we are committed to supporting bodily and personal autonomy for all women, as well as all
women�s capacity to understand and articulate their experiences of oppression on their own terms. And it
is as feminists that we oppose state interventions that promise gender equality at the expense of women�s
autonomy.

Signed: The Faculty and Students of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute
with the support of The School of Community and Public Affairs
Concordia University
April 7, 2010

For more information, please see the Simone de Beauvoir Institute�s November 2007 feminist response to
the Bouchard-Taylor commission: http://wsdb.concordia.ca/

Please circulate.


To endorse this statement, please e-mail: gada.mahrouse@concordia.ca
Media Contact: Dr. Gada Mahrouse, Simone de Beauvoir Institute
514-848-2424 x 2378 or gada.mahrouse@concordia.ca

11/12/07

The �Reasonable Accommodation� Commission and Debate: Statement by No One Is Illegal-Montreal

[The No One Is Illegal-Montreal collective is publishing and distributing the following statement in opposition to the racist �reasonable accommodation� debate in Quebec, and the related Bouchard-Taylor Commission. We encourage groups and individuals who agree with this statement to endorse it by contacting noii-montreal@resist.ca. We also encourage allies who would like to help organize against the hearings, or support the organizing of No One Is Illegal, to get in touch as well.]

November 12, 2007

The �reasonable accommodation� debate in Quebec, and the related �Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences� (the so-called �Bouchard-Taylor Commission�), are fundamentally rooted in xenophobia, racism and sexism.

From the outset, the �debate� fails to recognize that Quebec and Canada are built on stolen Indigenous land, and constituted through the dispossession and genocide of Indigenous peoples who have been forced into �accommodating� colonization. Moreover, it completely ignores the fact that racism and white supremacy were intrinsically tied to the creation of both Canada and Quebec, and throughout their histories, have been instrumental in defining who �belongs� and who does not.

The Bouchard-Taylor Commission was created in the context of xenophobia during an election campaign and has provided an uncontested platform for racism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism.

Opportunistic politicians and corporate media have appealed to public fears and prejudices, and manipulated false controversies over religious practices and cultural differences to create a generalized hysteria, with little to no basis in fact. In its very framework it creates a binary of �us� vs. �them�; the �us� being made up of white people of European descent, and the �them� being whichever non-white immigrant group is currently under the spotlight.

The supposed "debate" has made open bigotry publicly acceptable, using simplistic caricatures that render our communities homogenous, uncontested and monolithic. While we reject this offensive portrayal of our communities, we assert the diversity of our cultures and traditions as well as our multiple identities.

Insidiously, so-called progressives and feminists have used the Commission platform to promote their own sophisticated brand of racism, one that refuses to acknowledge the oppressions within Western society, and unquestioningly considers Quebec to be �pluralistic, democratic and egalitarian�.

While using rhetoric rooted in Islamophobia and sexism to justify war abroad, as is the case in the on-going military occupation of Afghanistan, Quebec has embraced the framework around the �rights of women� and the systematic dehumanization of Muslim cultures to justify intolerance chez nous. We reject the notion that women of faith need to be saved from their inherently oppressive and backward cultures, and instead we support the women who are on the frontlines of their own struggles for liberation, and subjects, not objects or victims, of their own transformation.

As the Bouchard-Taylor Commission begins its public hearings in Montreal, we are organizing to openly and publicly reject the commission process and framework. To engage the Commission process is to validate its fundamentally racist premise, which is to stand judgment of immigrant communities. This Commission, sanctioned by the state, is a process of submission, whereby minority populations are forced to justify their very existence in Quebec. The way this debate is framed ignores all the current intolerance and injustice faced by many migrant communities in Quebec, while forcing them to defend themselves as �good Quebecois�.

We declare: Ni patrie, ni �tat; ni Qu�bec, ni Canada! We refuse to submit to any form of nationalism.

Instead, we organize by uncompromisingly putting forward a vision of social justice, rooted in day-to-day grassroots struggles. We acknowledge and support the self-determination and sovereignty of Indigenous peoples all over the Americas -- struggles that have once again been rendered invisible in the skewed �reasonable accommodation� debate.

We organize actively against poverty, precarity, racial profiling, police brutality, war, capitalism and gender oppression. We organize against borders, for free movement and status for all. We actively fight against state oppression and violence targeted at the most marginalized, while struggling against all forms of oppression, whatever their source.

In contrast to the faulty framework of �reasonable accommodation�, we assert �solidarity across borders�, in the spirit of mutual aid and support.

We call for a collective rejection of the entire Commission. The process of genuine dialogue and debate, and real pluralism, comes from our shared struggles against all forms of oppression. The �reasonable accommodation� debate has clouded and confused the unity and solidarity we share -- as workers, poor, women, queer and trans people, migrants, and others -- fighting together to achieve real justice.

We re-assert those struggles, by refusing the fundamentally racist and sexist premises of the Bouchard-Taylor Commission, and by refusing to be submissive or fearful as we continue to practice self-determination and strive for collective liberation.

-- No One Is Illegal-Montreal (November 2007)
noii-montreal@resist.ca - ����������514-848-7583������� 514-848-7583
http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com

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Shulamit said...

"We reject the notion that women of faith need to be saved from their inherently oppressive and backward cultures, and instead we support the women who are on the frontlines of their own struggles for liberation, and subjects, not objects or victims, of their own transformation."

As a woman who identifies as religious, I say: "Right on my sisters and brothers! Right on!"

xyz said...

The PGA-Bloc Ottawa endorses this statement and affiliated actions.

Donovan said...

Hi NOII,

I just wanted to let you know that I appreciate the good work you are doing on exposing racism within this whole "Reasonable Accommodation" roving "Public Consultation" haunting Qu�bec at the moment.

There is one point I would like to bring up that has not been
addressed yet, but should. I do not have the time or patience to bring the issue to the roving racist show, so am passing it on to activists.

The first piece of Eurocentric art in present-day Canada, Marc
Lescarbot's 1606 Theatre of Neptune in New France, actually deals with the topic of "Reasonable Accommodation" between the French & the First
Nations:

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvno05F2uvU

Recent Coverage:
http://www.canlit.ca/reviews-review.php?id=13985

Other resources, including the play:
http://optative.net/neptune/education.html

As you can see, this first piece of Eurocentric drama and literature in Canada attempts to re-cast Native peoples as subservients in a French milieu, and does so in a racist manner (a redface show presented to the Mik'maq people). The question that needs to be asked is this: Did this play set a precedent for today's ideas of "Reasonable Accommodation", and if so what can we learn from it to help create a future discrimination-free society?

Thanks for your consideration, and please feel free to circulate this document. It is my hope activists, the media, and the "Commission" will take an interest. Everyone in this debate needs to be aware its racist cultural roots. Cheers!

Donovan King

Roman said...

To quote, then a question:

"To engage the Commission process is to validate its fundamentally racist premise, which is to stand judgment of immigrant communities"

So, if i were to attend a hearing, and having registered to speak, challenged whatever racist or xenophobic statements people made, in doing so i would have still validated a fundamentally racist premise? I don't really understand this.

Julio C�sar Fern�ndez said...

From my country I join this Leye from the ideals and from the action not to discriminate in any way and voces.Los heard all peoples are doomed to extinction by capitalism and by the inaction of governments that are not working to preserve the dignity of native peoples.

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